Live Thyself, Lord Jesus, through me

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Live Thyself, Lord Jesus, through me, For my very life art Thou;Thee I take to all my problems As the full solution now.Live Thyself, Lord Jesus, through me, In all things Thy will be done;I but a transparent vessel To make visible the Son.

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Consecrated is Thy temple, Purged from every stain and sin;May Thy flame of glory now be Manifested from within.Let the earth in solemn wonder See my body willinglyOffered as Thy slave obedient, Energized alone by Thee.

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Every moment, every member, Girded, waiting Thy command;Underneath the yoke to labor Or be laid aside as planned.When restricted in pursuing, No disquiet will beset;Underneath Thy faithful dealing Not a murmur or regret.

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Ever tender, quiet, restful, Inclinations put away,That Thou may for me choose freely As Thy finger points the way.Live Thyself, Lord Jesus, through me, For my very life art Thou;Thee I take to all my problems As the full solution now.

Lord, You are the solution to all my problems. Cause me to learn to take You as the unique solution to all my problems.

Aug92017

Tina Cerda

Ft Worth, TX, United States

When restricted in pursuing, no disquiet will beset. Underneath Thy faithful dealing, not a murmur or regret. Amen.

Jun92017

Nancy Goss

Dunn Loring, VA, United States

This hymn is so prophetic. How could our dear brother have known that this hymn was expressing exactly what the future held for him as he was to be imprisoned by the Lord in a Communist prison for twenty years. Thank You Lord for such a vessel!

Feb242017

Jeffrey

Los Angeles, CA, United States

Live Thyself, Lord Jesus, through me. In all things Thy will be done!

Aug22016

Janet Owusu Ansah

I am grateful to the Lord Jesus that He can live Himself through me and become my very life!

Saints this is the most amazing thing that can happen to us as humans. Thank You Lord Jesus for revealing such truth to us! Amen! Praise the Lord for the Church which is the Body of Christ!

Apr72016

Feil Lafable

Labuan, Wilaya, Malaysia

Lord Jesus live Thyself through me and make me a transparent vessel for Your glory. You are the solution to our problem..i love Your self Lord. Put away every stain and sin in me that You may manifested within...Oh Lord Jesus, Hallellujah for Your life Lord..

Jul282014

Jomar

Philippines

Lord Jesus, make me a transparent vessel, making You visible in me as a priceless treasure in an earthen vessel.

Jul222014

Gillian Hathaway

Masterton, New Zealand

I but a transparent vessel to make visible the Son. In order to make us transparent vessels, we need all the pressing circumstances in our life to realise our utter weakness, that our being in reality would have a divine transfer from the old creation to the new. When we are still expressing ourselves we can't be that transparent vessel expressing Him. We CAN trust Him that much. He is totally sovereign over our lives. Thank You we are in Your loving hands Lord. Our very life art Thou.

Jan62014

Tom Smith

Lake Forest, CA, United States

God desires that Christ be expressed through human life. The words of this hymn should be our continual prayer "Live Thyself, Lord Jesus, through me." May our prayer be according to God's revelation and carry out His desire so that "Christ lives in me" (Gal. 2:20).

In general, as long as people are not saying anything wrong or not saying something negative about other people, they speak whenever it pleases them. However, because we enjoy the Lord as life, we should return to our spirit and speak in our spirit whenever we speak. A person might lose his temper if his wife or a classmate makes him angry. If it would be embarrassing to lose his temper in a particular environment, he may exercise control but lose his temper later. What should we do if we are about to lose our temper, since we have Christ as life and enjoy Him as life? We should not lift up our eyes to heaven and say, "O Lord Jesus, if You want me to lose my temper, I will lose my temper, but if You do not want me to lose my temper, I will not lose my temper." Instead, we should turn to our spirit and touch the feeling in our spirit by fellow-shipping with the Lord, and say, "I am about to lose my temper, but what are You doing?" Stanza 1 of Hymns, #403 says, "Live Thyself, Lord Jesus, through me, / For my very life art Thou; / Thee I take to all my problems / As the full solution now." Whether or not we lose our temper is not for us to decide; the Lord Jesus should be our answer. If after asking Him in this way He is silent within us, we will not have any temper to lose. We can even ask Him if He wants to lose His temper. If we fellowship with Him in this way, we will have no strength to lose our temper. This is not a joke. This is the testimony of many believers. This is the way for us to enjoy the Lord as life.

God desires that Christ be expressed through human life. We see this in [Colossians] 3:18—4:1, a sister passage to Ephesians 5:22—6:9, regarding the believers' ethical relationships. In Ephesians the emphasis is on the need of spirit-filled ethical relationships for the expression of the Body in the normal church life. In Colossians the emphasis is that we should hold Christ as our Head and take Him as our life by having His rich word dwelling in us, that the highest ethical relationships, issuing not from our natural life but from Christ as our life, may be realized for His expression.

If we live in union with Christ, Christ will be expressed through our humanity. Christ is to he expressed in the human life, not in the angelic life. Angels cannot express Christ. The Father has ordained that we, His chosen ones, be the expression of His Son. "Live Thyself, Lord Jesus, through me," should be our prayer (see Hymns #403).

This hymn tells us that Christ is concealed within us, waiting to be manifested.

Even though Christ is concealed within us, this hidden glory cannot always remain covered and sometimes becomes manifest openly. I know that some parents are against their children's becoming Christians, especially in the Chinese families that accept the ideologies of Confucius and Mencius. Such parents always think that when their children believe in Jesus, they are believing in a foreign religion, which is not a glory but a shame to their ancestors for three generations. This is why parents oppose their children's believing in the Lord Jesus. Among the brothers and sisters here today, there is one who believed in the Lord and was saved under such a circumstance. This brother was saved in junior high school. Before he was saved, he was a naughty teenager, but after getting saved, his living changed completely. When people scolded him, he remained pleasant. His parents would beat him for believing in the Lord, but he would go meekly into his bedroom to kneel by his bed and pray to the Lord. Time after time, day after day the Lord Jesus would manifest His glory in this previously naughty teenager. His parents were so touched that eventually they also believed in the Lord. Many parents oppose when their children first believe in the Lord, but eventually they end up believing in the Lord also. Hallelujah! It is hard to find a family in which the parents do not follow their children to believe in the Lord. Everyone who is genuinely saved has the glory of the Lord Jesus manifested in him; this means that the invisible God is expressed through him.